Posts Tagged ‘Financial misconduct’
1606 Grima v. Regional Director Rory Gamble
There is no evidence in the record that an administratorship was necessary to prevent corruption or financial misconduct within the meaning of Article 12, §3(a), of the Constitution. The fact that Grima questioned the propriety of pension and insurance contributions for the Local Union’s part-time janitor does not amount to financial malpractice. The decision to…
Read More1634 Lartigue v. IEB
The aspects of Lartigue’s behavior that required the extraordinary remedy of a disqualification to run for office include her defiance of parliamentary procedures for reaching a consensus as well as her misrepresentation of her own actions at a local membership meeting. Her actions were not errors or even negligence but deliberate strategies to evade the…
Read More1643 Johnson v. International President
Although Johnson may have received the excess expense payments in good faith, we find that her refusal to cooperate with the International Union’s auditing department once the error was discovered justified the suspension imposed pursuant to Article 48, §5(c). If Johnson disagreed with the auditor’s findings, she was entitled to appeal those findings and request…
Read More1653 Carthon v. International President
The suspension imposed by President Gettelfinger on October 23, 2009, automatically lifted on March 4, 2010, in accordance with the terms of Article 48, §5(e), of the UAW Constitution. Alvin Carthon notified the International Union of his intent to appeal the suspension on November 4, 2009. That notification was sufficient to trigger the 120 day…
Read More1653 II Carthon v. International President
As president of Local Union 2297, Carthon had a fiduciary responsibility to his members to ensure that any use of Local Union funds was consistent with the UAW Constitution, established policies of the UAW International Union, the Local Union bylaws, and the membership’s decisions with regard to what constitutes necessary expenditures. Carthon’s offer to repay…
Read More1658 Kiddell v. International Union
There is no basis for rejecting President Gettelfinger’s application of Article 48, §5(c) to remove Kiddell from his position as financial secretary to Local Union 592. The audit performed by the International Union revealed that Kiddell regularly submitted vouchers claiming lost time for periods when the plant was not scheduled to work or for time…
Read More1713 Schoenecker v. International Union
Schoenecker did not engage in financial misconduct within the meaning of Article 48, §5, of the UAW Constitution by claiming lost time based on the assignments he would have received as a member of the launch team. Throughout his term of office as financial secretary, Schoenecker submitted vouchers for lost time based on his launch…
Read More1750 Hubbard v. International Union
Given the genuinely ambiguous text defining the president’s compensation subsequent to the sale of the Saline plant, if Hubbard had submitted claims for compensation based on occasional, carefully documented, telephone calls and other demands on her time outside of business hours, her right to such compensation would be difficult to challenge, even within the restrictive…
Read More1797 Edwards v. International Executive Board
The International President and IEB properly determined that the Local Union’s $13,564.80 disbursement to Edwards for mileage from her home to the union hall to perform her duties as Recording Secretary from June 2008 through June 2014 was a misappropriation of union funds. The Local’s bylaws permit officers to receive mileage reimbursement on an “as…
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